Merchants are minding their digital critiques [Philadelphia Inquirer] “Greg Dodge, owner of Zavino at 13th and Sansom Streets, likes to say that there is no marketing like word of mouth, and once a week, a report arrives on his cellphone that lets him measure just what those words are worth. The sender is a Washington company called newBrandAnalytics, and it offers a service that scrapes and analyzes social media and consumer-review sites to produce a sort of buzz report card created by data scientists that allows the hospitality industry to act on what in the past had just been talk.”
Twitter apologizes for blocking newspaper’s URLs [Poynter] “Twitter’s Andrew Fitzgerald apologized Monday to Philadelphia City Paper reporter Daniel Denvir for an episode last week when Twitter wasn’t allowing users to access the paper’s stories through tweeted URLs, Denvir told Poynter in a phone call.”
Q&A: Stephen Goodman, the Entrepreneurship Guru [Keystone Edge] A Q&A with “Stephen M. Goodman, partner at the law firm Morgan Lewis and 40-year veteran of the Philadelphia entrepreneurship scene.”
Temple Students Launch Clothing Line to Help Solve Philly’s Food Deserts [PhillyMag]
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